May 04, 2018
Minister for social justice and empowerment Dr Rajiv Saizal of Himachal Pradesh has announced that all government buildings, educational institutions, public places and government websites in the state will be made accessible for persons with disabilities.
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May 02, 2018
The disability community in Rwanda continues dialogues with the public sector and the private sector providing financial services to make ATMs more accessible to customers with disabilities.
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April 26, 2018
Baidu, one of the leading companies in China, is heavily investing in autonomous driving, conversational AI, and smart city solutions across the globe including through its $200M Apollo Southeast Asia fund in Singapore and the roll out of self-driving vehicles in select routes in the US in partnership with California-based Access Services which provides paratransit services for persons with disabilities.
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April 24, 2018
Siemens recently won Germany's Inclusion Prize for fostering the inclusion of employees with disabilities by making Inclusion as an integral part of the corporate culture and diversity strategy.
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April 23, 2018
Qatar Minister of Transport and Communications Al Sulaiti underscored, during the GREAT 2018, the ministry's commitment to create an integrated digital community in the State of Qatar and the importance of investing in ICT in launching the potential of people with disabilities and helping them to achieve independence and self-reliance through policies such as the Digital Inclusion strategy.
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April 21, 2018
Global companies such as HSBC, Microsoft, Royal Bank of Scotland, Accenture, Shell, GlaxoSmithKline, Phil & Friends, and Barclays encouraged employers at the Business Disability Forum to leverage technology to make workplaces more inclusive to employees with disabilities.
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April 19, 2018
The Commons work and pensions select committee recommended that the government sets up a league table of its departments which compares their performance in enabling the use of assistive technology aimed at helping bridge disability employment gap and improving economic productivity.
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April 18, 2018
Disability rights activist Diethono Nakhro, a member of the National Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities & National Disability Network, has urged the Nagaland State government to remove digital barriers that are discriminating against persons with disabilities to ensure that technology in the State is accessible and provides equal access to all by complying with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
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April 18, 2018
The team from the “Deep Monitoring” project has developed a force and movement assessing device that allows doctors with disabilities to examine their patients from a distance.
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April 12, 2018
ShopABLED is encouraging restaurants to subscribe to its recently developed mobile restaurant menus app called Menus4ALL which helps anyone who is partially or non-sighted to access menus independently.
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April 12, 2018
About 87% of office-based physicians have already adopted the Electronic Health Records, a technology developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology aimed at eliminating the use of paper records and making information more accessible to patients and physicians with disabilities.
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April 11, 2018
25 disability groups led by Vision Australia signed a statement that called for the procurement of accessible information and communications technology in the Australian Public Service.
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